Example sentences of "a few old " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners , a few neighbouring clergy , a few old students at Lincoln . |
| 2 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |
| 3 | There were only a few old women in the office . |
| 4 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 5 | I 'll stay here an' settle a few old scores with our precious Mayor an' all ! ’ |
| 6 | Some of the descriptions are devastating : Alford is a ‘ small , uneventful market town ’ ; Beelsby , ‘ a few old houses and plenty of recent infill for the Grimsby commuter ’ ; Fosdyke , ‘ an austere village in remote and forbidding Fen country ’ ; and Mablethorpe , ‘ famed for its sand , certainly not for its architecture ’ . |
| 7 | Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks … |
| 8 | There are a few old June records , but none since 1947 . |
| 9 | There are a few old records for November , the latest being for 27 November 1844 at Rottingdean , and there are about four winter records , but only two since 1900 , one in 1908 and one at Cissbury on 9 December 1973 . |
| 10 | There were , with the tiny crucifix , a few old and tattered Bibles , some rosary beads and , on holy pamphlets , the images of saints . |
| 11 | Secondly , just because a few old vegetables have survived so long , it does n't mean we should try and resurrect all the others . |
| 12 | That included a few old but comfortable easy chairs for the meeting area , plus a coffee table , a kettle and cups . |
| 13 | A few old people watched with impassive faces , as though they no longer felt anything , but most of the people were in high spirits , talking and laughing . |
| 14 | Tobacco was for men and a few old tinker women who sucked on a pipe . |
| 15 | To snare a few old fans , then , this reissue is packaged by Mercury Rev 's new label with ‘ Lego My Ego ’ , an hour of Peel session tracks , live epics and odd singles , that is not just more of the same , rather the same — but more so . |
| 16 | Nothing to be scared of , just a few old trees , though Uncle Nick used to be scared sometimes , on the way down . |
| 17 | Just a few old trees . |
| 18 | This is one of the reasons for the choice of hymns and other music being so often limited to a few old war-horses . |
| 19 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 20 | Giving their children a few old pennies works wonders , as does showing them the pieces of jagged cans one finds on these places . |
| 21 | In the darkness of the church — there were only a few old women praying , oblivious of what went on around them — one of the girls took the note and quickly hid it in her knickers . |
| 22 | Quite a few old ones up there there was , even up on the left-hand side . |
| 23 | A fortnight later Doctor Jekyll gave a dinner party for a few old friends . |
| 24 | He upped the price of all his unsold pictures by twenty-five per cent , borrowed a few old ones from their owners and painted some large , meretricious canvases to make a splash . |
| 25 | A few old veterans of the Mosleyite British Union Movement were identified amongst the marchers , and conveniently blamed by some of the more deluded , or self-deluding , but there seemed little escape from the truth . |
| 26 | A few old men dozed on benches . |
| 27 | An inn and a few old cottages stood to one side of the lock . |
| 28 | I also have a few old postcards if these are of any use . ’ |
| 29 | In the white pubs are mainly young kids , with a few old men and just one or two middle-aged . |
| 30 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |